Lamar Alexander - A "Reasonable" MAGGAT On Climate - Displays His Blazing Ignorance In Interview

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ALEXANDER: Well, it's becoming more urgent, more of a problem. And there's a better understanding of it. I actually think the Green New Deal is a bizarre proposal and so far out that it gives us a chance to step up and say, this is a problem, but that's not the way to do it. I think most of...

CORNISH: Well, just to jump in there, it is a resolution.

ALEXANDER: Yeah.

CORNISH: Right? It's not actually - it's a start of a conversation. It was a non-binding resolution. And some of the things you have in your plan - greener buildings, electric vehicles - are things that that plan references. What makes that one...

ALEXANDER: Yeah.

CORNISH: ...Bizarre and yours somehow more straight ahead?

ALEXANDER: Well, that one focuses on cows, combustion...

CORNISH: Cows are not mentioned in the resolution, Senator...

ALEXANDER: Well - but...

CORNISH: ...In the one that was filed.

ALEXANDER: Well - but the proposal was to deal with agriculture. And methane comes from cow burping.

CORNISH: So I'm looking at the proposal.

ALEXANDER: And that was a big part of the proposal.

CORNISH: And it says working collaboratively with farmers to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, supporting family...

ALEXANDER: Well, they've...

CORNISH: ...Farming. It doesn't...

ALEXANDER: They've...

CORNISH: ...Say anything about attacking cows.

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https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706969356/gop-sen-lamar-alexander-wants-to-address-climate-change-without-the-green-new-de

[Glorfindel]

1. I heard that. I couldn't believe the rePuke's stupidity...

or maybe I could. It's getting harder and harder to discern what's stupid and what's just plain evil.

[Canoe52]

2. Mama always said you can't fix stupid.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Lamar passed his best by date ...

in 1985.

[progressoid]

4. I was listening to that in the car and turned it off when he said the cows thing.